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Lawrence Glickman

3 years

My new piece in ⁦ @TheAtlantic ⁩ analyzes what I call, modifying Albert O. Hirschman, “the rhetoric of racial reaction,” and traces its roots to the opposition to Reconstruction. So glad that they have included links to most of the primary sources.

3 Tropes of White Victimhood

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.

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@LarryGlickman

5 years

Hey @nytimes : why don’t you send a fashion photographer and a reporter to traffic court to take glamorous portraits of the accused & to ask them how they are dealing with the “existential” question of whether they plan to to pay the fines they incurred for speeding?

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Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violation of email protocol: 3 above the fold headlines in @nytimes White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows violation of email protocol: mentioned in the 28h paragraph of one below the fold story in the Times.

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An editorial cartoon in the Citizens’ Council newspaper, July 1959, demonizing teachers and condemning assertions of racial equality, civil rights activism (note the NAACP poster) and integrated education.

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What is so infuriating about this is that, until relatively recently, free tuition was the norm at a number of leading public colleges and universities. The University of California first charged tuition in the mid 1980s; CUNY in 1976. Many others charged nominal tuition.

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The irony of the 60 Minutes interviews is that Biden faced much tougher questions. They asked him, and not the guy who recently bragged about acing a dementia test, whether he was senile. They asked him, and not the guy who just got out of the hospital, about his health. /1

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My main takeaway from that 60 Minutes thing is that the questions weren't... really tough? Like, at all?

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I’ve written about the scourge of “taxpayerism,” in which the taxpayer (almost always figured as white, affluent, male, and oppressed) replaces the citizen in the political imagination, and the main task of politics is to ease their burden rather than support the public good.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin: "We're not going to use taxpayer money to pay people more to stay home."

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I find it fascinating how frequently conservatives argue that people move to the right not because of any underlying core principle but out of spite./1

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So let me get this straight: Trump says he will sign an executive order to provide something that is part of a law passed 10 years ago, one that he has tried and failed to repeal in the legislature and that he is still seeking to destroy in the Courts. And that's "huge news"?

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Huge news just now - @realDonaldTrump announces upcoming EO to cover pre-existing conditions. Big, big, big news.

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A central fact is that, in the midst of a UAW strike, Trump spoke last night at a nonunion factory. Yet the @nytimes mentions this only at the end of the 6th paragraph and the @washingtonpost brings it up in only the 19th paragraph. These are failures of framing./1

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Translating Republican dysfunction to “government dysfunction” is not only imprecise, it assists the GOP by echoing their message.

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2 years

So the party that plotted a coup, has exacerbated the Covid pandemic, voted unanimously against the American Recovery Act, lies about a "stolen" election, supports outlawing abortion, foments culture war, and has no plan for governing, is poised to win big in the 2022 elections?

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Regulations save lives. In 1960 gasoline contained lead, seat belts were not required. It was before Truth in Packaging Laws, the Clean Water Act, the Federal Coal Miners Health and Safety Act, the Wholesome Poultry Products Act, the Flammable Fabrics Act, the Air Quality Act....

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Pres. Trump cuts red tape in front of stack of paper representing current regulations. The president says his administration's goal is to return to the 1960-level regulations.

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“Trump says earth is flat. Scientists disagree.”

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The New York Times has to stop accepting Republican framing in case like this. Here the set up is that the GOP is “divided” about impeaching Biden, rather than pointing out in the lede the elementary reality that they have no basis for doing so.

Republicans Are Divided on Impeaching Biden as Panel Begins New Inquiry

A vote to send the Homeland Security Committee impeachment articles against President Biden for his border policies has underscored rifts in the G.O.P. about whether to try to remove him, and for...

www.nytimes.com

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The framing of vaccine deniers as heroic is really something. Do we see stories like this about other categories of people who defy the law and needlessly endanger others?

A trooper defying his state’s vaccine mandate uses his final dispatch to tell off the governor

The 22-year Washington State Patrol veteran said he was being ousted for being "dirty" and refusing coronavirus vaccination.

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@jbouie The Morton's restaurant chain opened in 1978 and is therefore not "deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

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This piece is remarkable in that its critique of the Democratic Party for supposedly dividing the country into “us and them” itself employs so many false dichotomies. 1/

Opinion | A Wretched Start for Democrats (Published 2019)

The party seems interested in helping everyone except the voters it needs.

www.nytimes.com

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Immediately after the rioters are removed, Congress must: 1. Certify the election. 2. Impeach and remove Trump. 3. Censure the elected officials who abetted this violent coup attempt.

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4 years

If any other president did said something this crazy, this scary, this irresponsible it would be the lead story for weeks and there would be serious talk of removing him from office. Yet this will probably barely attract any coverage.

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President Trump endorses conspiracy theory cult (Qanon) which predicts he will round up and murder his political rivals.

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Graham is trying to overturn democracy. Shouldn’t the headline say that directly, rather than “unravel election results”? And why use “long-shot mission,” which could be interpreted as an heroic act, rather than “baseless” and “potentially illegal”?

Lindsey Graham’s Long-Shot Mission to Unravel the Election Results (Published 2020)

With unsubstantiated claims of vote-counting errors and calls to officials in several states, the South Carolina senator seems bent on reversing Joe Biden’s clear victory over President Trump.

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No @nytimes . It was emphatically not "she said, then he said." She carefully and specifically asserted. Then he bloviated, launched conspiracy theories, misdirected, dissembled, and screamed like a spoiled child. How could possibly you treat these as equivalents?

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5 years

George Washington had to put his Learjet in a blind trust.

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I hereby call for total and complete shutdown on the word “Washington,” which both ignores the issue of asymmetric polarization AND materially aids the GOP by serving up their chief talking point that “Washington is broken” and government is disfunctional. 1/

Maggie Haberman

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Washington is flirting with a financial crisis. No one has a plan to stop it - CNNPolitics

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Amazingly, this article doesn’t mention Bannon’s history w/ Breitbart and as an advocate of white nationalism; nor does it quote his view that people called racists should “wear it as a badge of honor.”

Steve Bannon: ‘President Trump is not a racist’

Former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon said in an interview that aired Sunday that President Trump is not a racist and blamed the “radical left” for divisions in the U.S.He s…

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Some of these speeches are good but, unless I'm mistaken, no one has called for the impeachment and removal of Trump, who abetted a violent siege of the Capitol a few hours ago.

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Happy 9th (Labor Day) anniversary to the one of most "unclear-on-the-concept" tweets ever posted.

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Steve Scalise took office as Louisiana State Representative in 1996 and his first two actions of consequence were his March 1996 vote for a plan to abolish one of two Black majority Congressional districts and his April 1996 statement about slavery.

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The Liberator pulling no punches about Jefferson Davis in August, 1865.

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I've heard that #stoppresidentbannon is really bothering our leader, and that Trump is mad too. So please don't retweet.

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How does one disavow a photograph?

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Georgia @SenatorLoeffler disavows photo taken with longtime white supremacist #gapol #gasen

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"They willingly got themselves into debt. We're asked to write it off." Really? Who bailed out the banks that were "too big too fail," Bret? You might also check this claim with the President, who has declared bankruptcy numerous times. /5

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This @jbouie column gets at a point that is perhaps the central thesis of my book-in-progress on backlash movements since Reconstruction. They are often treated "if [they] were a force of nature or the automatic result of some mechanical process."/1

Opinion | No One Forced Republicans to Do Any of These Things (Published 2022)

Why do we act as though the lunacy of election denial is an organic phenomenon?

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4 years

Are you kidding me, ⁦ @nytimes ⁩?

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“They broke the rules to get into this country. We didn’t.” Who is the “we” here? There were no “rules” to get into this country for most of our history. And many of those that were eventually created, like the Chinese Exclusion Act, were manifestly racist. /3

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To be fair, Stahl had more questions that she didn’t get to ask because he walked out early, but there was nothing about his threats to free and fair elections, about about kids in cages, or about tax cuts for the rich, about corruption in his administration, or climate change./3

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This is a strange metric for a governmental body. By this standard, don't the Department of Defense and Education also have "billions in losses annually"?

The Economist

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The USPS is viewed favourably by 91% of Americans despite billions in losses annually

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Tucker Carlson is predicting a third Reconstruction and Nikki Haley says we will have “a progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, & cutting defense spending.” Are these supposed to be bad things?

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When Trump couldn’t name a policy priority, rather than zeroing in on his inability to do so, Stahl changed the subject to “Who is our biggest foreign adversary?” Other than COVID, she didn’t ask him to defend or explain any of his policies or about his personal tax avoidance./3

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Credit to Stephens for quoting Everett Dirksen rather than the overused one from Margaret Thatcher, but the idea that Democrats are less fiscally responsible than Republicans, who just passed a huge budget-busting tax cut for the wealthy & corporations, is really not credible. /8

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This both-sides “clash between Republicans, Democrats” and “partisan disputes” reporting is tragically and dangerously not up to the moment. The substance of the disagreement is not even mentioned, and then obliquely, until paragraph 10. Irresponsible./1

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This anecdote from the ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ obit for Orrin Hatch is a telling example of how political coverage goes astray. The Post highlights Hatch’s outraged response to Sherrod Brown’s statement that the Trump tax cuts favor the rich. It doesn’t say that Brown was right.

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For all the bluster about the filibuster as a producer bipartisan comity, it is important to remember that the GOP operates without this constraint for all its legislative priorities, making the 60 vote bar meaningful only for Democratic initiatives, like voting rights./1

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This is unacceptable. Fire DeJoy and fix this ASAP. VA has an important election happening now.

Larry Sabato

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UPDATE: Source in post office says my postal delivery person quit after supervisor’s verbal abuse week & a half ago. No replacement in sight. No mail even sorted for pickup. No ballot or anything else will be delivered. Unacceptable! @timkaine @MarkWarner

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But the starting point of some of O'Donnell's questions were similar to GOP talking points in a way that was not true of the questions that Stahl asked Trump, which were mostly asking him to explain/defend his actions or behavior. /9

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Both Senators from West Virginia, Robert Byrd and Jennings Randolph, voted for Medicare in 1965 & supported all manner of other Great Society programs. More recently, WV's two Senators, Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, voted for Obamacare in 2010.

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"They pay few or no taxes. We already pay most of those taxes." Read the work of @V_Williamson and many others to learn the truth, which is that low-income Americans pay a lot of taxes. /4

Column: How much do the poor actually pay in taxes? Probably more than you think.

Those making less than $19,000 a year pay almost 11 percent of their income in state and local taxes. Here's why that matters.

www.pbs.org

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So much opinion writing is about whether the ideologically-diverse Democratic coalition has gone too far left, when the much more ideologically-homogenous GOP coalition now takes positions that would have been deemed deeply reactionary & well outside the mainstream not long ago.

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All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception. You read that right. Terrifying.

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Although Trump has presided over a ballooning deficit, it was Biden who got (from Norah O'Donnell) the deficit scold and "how are we going to pay for it" questions./4

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“They speak Spanish. We don’t.” More than 40 million Americans are native Spanish speakers. 10 of millions more have taken Spanish in school, many of them able to speak it at least a little bit./2

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What an incredibly irresponsible piece ⁦⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩. Waiting until the 9th paragraph to tell us that the White House cannot, in fact, “block” McGahn from testifying after 8 paragraphs of stenography from the White House. Really?

White House blocks former counsel McGahn from testifying to Congress

McGahn had been scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to answer questions following the release of the Mueller report last month.

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Interesting juxtaposition of headlines in the WaPo.

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This is a little too on the nose, no?

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CNN: conservatives have "deep scars" over Supreme Court fights in the past....which have yielded them 2/3 of the Justices in spite of winning the popular vote in presidential elections exactly one time since 1988.

Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

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How media’s game framing will further erode American democracy. Do. Better.

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The proposal to make illegal border crossings a civil rather than a criminal offense is really not to advocate "open borders, limitless amnesty and, in time, the Third World-ization of America." Moreover, how is the last item on this list not pure and simple racism? /7

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They are not “born-again fiscal conservatives” or “one-time deficit hawks.” Their hypocrisy and selectivity suggests they never believed it in the first place. Please don’t gullibly return to this self-serving bs narrative.

Analysis | Born-again fiscal conservatives are sign of Trump’s weakening hand in Congress

Republicans who added trillions of dollars to the national debt are ignoring their own record to embrace the view that deficits will be at the forefront for a post-Trump GOP.

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What is the point of quoting Ted Cruz’s bs talking points with zero analysis, ⁦ @nytimes ⁩? This could be an RNC press release.

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Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by almost 3 million. Please stop talking about his election as a reflection of "the will of the people."

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The line that got to me was: "When you sit there and see your wife on life support because of covid, you throw out politics." Such a telling formulation in the context of a pandemic that had already put hundreds of thousands of people on life support.

Chris Crouch was anti-vaccine. Now his pregnant wife had covid, and he faced a terrible choice.

‘You are not going to die,’ he said, making a vow he wasn’t sure he could keep.

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One of the claims I'm finding over and over again in my research on the backlash to Reconstruction is that it was designed to "humiliate and degrade" white people, as this 1866 article from Ouachita Telegraph argued.

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I'm not sure what "racially on trial" is supposed to mean and the more I try to unpack it the more confused I am as to what Stephens intends to suggest here. Does he mean we shouldn't make white people feel bad by suggesting that these policies had a racist impact? /11

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Lamentation for the decline of the whale oil industry, 1907.

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The Green New Deal will destroy the American energy industry as we know it.

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Is it "demonizing job-creators" by expecting them to pay their fair share of taxes (many pay none) or to regulate corporations so that they serve the public interest rather than, say, stealing and monetizing our private data as Facebook and Google do? /6

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The claim that “the way [Trump] handled himself in the last 60 days" marks some sort of dramatic change in his actions and rhetoric is not credible. He has employed violent language & explicitly called his supporters to violence since his 2016 campaign./1

As Trump leaves office weakened, Republicans wonder if his wounds are fatal

In the wake of the mob attack on the Capitol that he incited, Trump is now destined to slink out of the White House diminished and increasingly isolated.

www.washingtonpost.com

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One final point re: Stephens's comment about the candidates he liked being like "square dancers at a rave." This comment takes on added meaning in light of this fascinating history of the racist origins of square dancing by @RobynElyse . /13

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The strangest part of this column is that, with it's we/they false dichotomies, it exhibits precisely the “common-enemy identity politics" that Stephens deplores. /9

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Today, I am calling for a complete & total shutdown of defenses of austerity in the name of our "children and grandchildren." What will actually help our grandchildren is universal pre-K, paid family leave, free community college, better health care & a planet that isn't on fire.

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My statement raising concerns about the consequences of passing a $3.5 trillion budget:

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Editors at ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩: you really don’t need the word “tacit” here.

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Absolutely incredible that, in a more than 40 paragraph @washingtonpost story about how the Covid pandemic might be brought under control, the only mention of Democrats & Republicans is literally a “both sides” quote, an equivalence between Dem caution & GOP vaccine/mask refusal.

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This profile of Josh Hawley, which highlights his supposedly “ferocious populism” and quotes somebody calling him a “true populist,” barely discusses his policy positions, which on ACA, taxes, minimum wage & many other issues are not “populist” at all. /1

What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing?

A law-geek Missouri senator with an elite pedigree tries to grab the mantle of right-wing populism.

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His hopes dimming for the GOP Presidential nomination, DeSantis makes a play for a Supreme Court appointment.

DeSantis took undisclosed private flights and lodging through wealthy donors

The trips included a private flight to the prestigious home of the Masters tournament, with an overnight stay and a round of golf.

www.washingtonpost.com

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BS. To quote SC native, @Eugene_Robinson : "Do you know when that flag was first flown at the Columbia statehouse in Columbia? 1961 … it was a middle finger directed at the federal government. It was flown there as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation. Period."

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Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag was about "service, and sacrifice, and heritage" until Dylan Roof "hijacked" it

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Embracing GOP talking points, O'Donnell employed one of their traditional smear phrases in separate questions to each: she asked Biden if his administration might be a "Trojan Horse for liberals" and Harris if it would be "a Trojan Horse for socialist policies."/6

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I truly cannot believe that the ⁦ @nytimesbooks ⁩ went with this lede, which reads like a Ron DeSantis press release, to describe an outrageous political stunt.

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I don’t know what a “racial overtone” is. ⁦ @APStylebook ⁩ has said that it is best not to use euphemisms like this. Moreover, such framing doesn’t account for the agency of the Senators who asked the questions that Judge Jackson “endured.” 1/

Analysis | Jackson endures questioning with racial overtones from GOP senators

The grilling that the first female African-American nominee to the Supreme Court has experienced is a reminder that Black Americans are seen and often judged through a different lens than White...

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Rather than the headline "Washington Is Flirting With a Debt Crisis," how about, "GOP Tax Cuts and Demands for Military Spending Make Debt Crisis Likely." Rather than a misleading frame that serves the interests of the GOP, make it one that accurately assesses the situation. /10

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Celebrate today. Get to work for Warnock/Ossoff tomorrow!

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An American history lesson in one tweet.

river buddy butcher 🤠

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Hell hath no fury like a white person mildly inconvenienced

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It is remarkable how closely Alito hewed to the rhetorical structure of “backlash” discourse in his Federalist Society speech. Victimology, grievance, zero sum thinking, the changes are coming too fast, equality as defeat—it’s all there.

Analysis | Samuel Alito’s provocative, unusually political speech

Alito took aim at coronavirus restrictions and five Democratic senators. He also suggested the court's legalization of same-sex marriage had restricted people's speech.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Hey ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩: This is an unprecedented subversion of democracy, whether “critics” say it or not.

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Maybe Newsom “painted” the recall effort “as an attempt at a hostile takeover by far-right extremists” because that is exactly what it was.

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California defeated a recall effort that he had painted as an attempt at a hostile takeover by far-right extremists and supporters of Donald Trump.

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If the California fires and blackouts were happening on the East Coast, this would a much, much bigger national story about how dangerously far, perhaps irreversibly in some places, climate change has come.

Bill McKibben

@billmckibben

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Memorable line from today's San Francisco newspaper: the weekend's wild blazes have 'intensified fears that some parts of California were becoming too dangerous to inhabit.'

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Perhaps seeking to create a more just and equal society requires recognizing the (sometimes inadvertent or even unanticipated) negative impact of past and current policies. /12

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@CBSNews @SpeakerRyan then why did you try to destroy ACA, which funded mental health care? And we need also to restrict access to assault weapons.

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When Biden said he would only raise taxes on people making more than 400K/year, she asked, "You think it's a good idea to raise taxes when the economy's in dire straits?"/5

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This article highlights Kemp’s anger, foregrounding his “blistering critique” of the law’s critics & his “staunch” defense of it. The reality that sixteen sections of the law can potentially restrict voting is literally mentioned parenthetically. /1

Kemp Lashes M.L.B. as Republicans Defend Georgia’s Voting Law (Published 2021)

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, who is starting his re-election push, argued that the league had “caved to fear” in moving its All-Star Game as he tried to rally Republicans around the new voting limits.

www.nytimes.com

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Fred Hampton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene V. Debs, Fred Korematsu, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, MLK, Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson.....

Eric Trump

@EricTrump

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Never before in American history has a person or family been on the receiving end of more coordinated political harassment and retaliation. Frankly it is disgusting and validates exactly why @realDonaldTrump was elected POTUS... it is so transparent and America isn’t fooled.

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If I had to pick one clip to summarize the Trump presidency and Trumpism, I might well pick this scene of weaponized elite victimization

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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"We're all victims. Everybody here. All these thousands of people here tonight. They're all victims. Every one of you." -- Trump

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This sentence. Wow. "Making white Americans feel racially on trial for views they may have held in the past on crime, busing and similar subjects is not going to help the Democrats." /10

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@LarryGlickman

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A post-election PSA: 74,223,744 < 81,283,485 74,223,744 ≠ 75 million

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@LarryGlickman

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Amazing that the media narrative largely revolves around whether the Democrats have gone too far left or are too “woke,” when House GOP members openly associate with an anti-Semitic white nationalist and Trump and GOP leadership are perfectly happy to have them in their caucus.

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Trump is an extreme case but his administration is the culmination of a long-term evolution of a GOP that has gone from a suspicion of government to a rejection of the very act of governing itself.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

5 years

Do we even have a government anymore?

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This may be a question of interest only to history nerds but [no pun intended] what is the proper citation format for butt-dials? Should they be footnoted like phone calls but with an additional notation to let the reader know the call was accidental?

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The ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ tells us that Biden’s withdrawal was “heavily criticized”; the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ says it “raises questions about his leadership.” Such vague language leaves unclear who exactly is saying this, and attributes a kind of unearned consensus to these views.

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A plea to the hosts of future Democratic debates: How about providing free tickets to student groups, teachers, care and retail workers, local non profits, environmental & racial justice groups, and citizens organizations, and NOT the “Elite of the Elite”?

With Tickets $1,750, Debate Audiences Are Elite of the Elite. But That’s Not New. (Published 2020)

Getting into one of the Democratic debates is like getting a ticket to the Super Bowl or the World Series.

www.nytimes.com

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Joseph Alsop in 1963 on the GOP becoming a “white man’s party,” a phrase used by many other commenters who saw the Republicans remaking themselves as the party of the “white backlash” against the Civil Rights movement.

Article clipped from Detroit Free Press

Clipping found in Detroit Free Press published in Detroit, Michigan on 7/9/1963.

www.newspapers.com

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William Jennings Biden.

Jennifer Epstein

@jeneps

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Biden: “If every investment banker in New York went on strike, nothing would much change in America. If every plumber decided to stop working, every electrician, the country comes to a halt. I mean, literally, not figuratively, literally, it comes to a damn halt."

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I've been following the coverage of Trump in @nytimes & @washingtonpost since the 2016 campaign. While the reporting is almost always excellent, what strikes me is how consistently they bend over backwards to frame stories about him, even critical ones, in a favorable light. /1

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The idea that Trump became “delusional” after the election or that a drunk Rudy Giuliani gave him the idea to lie about the election results is undermined by Trump’s consistent claims that he would refuse to admit defeat since well before the 2020 election

Trump Won’t Commit to ‘Peaceful’ Post-Election Transfer of Power (Published 2020)

In response to a question, the president complained about mail-in ballots and said: “There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.”

www.nytimes.com

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The Republican responses to Trump’s racist tweets about Elijah Cummings are a case study in collective moral cowardice and white grievance./1

Republicans distance themselves from Trump calling Cummings a racist, but avoid criticizing the...

Trump never offered any reason or explanation for why he called Cummings a racist as part of his weekend attacks on the black lawmaker.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@LarryGlickman

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Periodically we need to remind ourselves that if Trump held almost any other any other leadership position—CEO of a publicly traded company, say, or principal, or coach—he would long ago have been fired for cause, for, take your pick, lying, self-dealing, cruelty, or incompetence

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

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Leave the obvious lie about the availability of tests aside for a moment — who calls a test for a dangerous virus “beautiful”?

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